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The Children’s Project
The Children’s Project is an important
and heartwarming part of every PWH
airlift. Benefitting hundreds of children
each year, the project provides
much-needed items for orphanages,
institutions, schools or hospitals in the
recipient country.
Volunteers, who bring vitamins, furniture,
bedding, clothing, school supplies and
The mission of the Physicians
With Heart project is to procure
and distribute medical aid,
provide medical education to local
physicians, and to improve the quality
of life for children in the host country.
Physicians With Heart is a partnership
between the AAFP Foundation, the
U.S. State Department and Heart to
Heart International.
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toys, are able to witness the difference
they make in the lives of children
affected by war, abandonment,
and poverty.
Support good work at both the national and Chapter levels with one donation. Make a $50 Dues
Check-Off donation with your membership dues payment. Your gift:
• Supports humanitarian and charitable initiatives.
• Provides educational programs and opportunities for physicians,
students, and patients.
• Stimulates and supports practice-based research.
• Funds Chapter-level programs through the FMPC Grant Awards.
In Tajikistan, the project team will be
visiting three boarding schools, each in
dire need of basic items such as chairs,
desks and school supplies.
Boarding School #4 in Dushanbe
This school is home to nearly 400
socially orphaned and homeless
children (ages 7 to 16). The Children’s
Project will furnish two classrooms with
desks and chairs, a teacher’s desk,
coat racks and blackboards.
Boarding School in Yavan
This school cares for 180 children
(ages 6 to 18) and is home to 100. The
Children’s Project will provide personal
lockers for the children living at the
school, in addition to desks and
Your AAFP Foundation through the Family Medicine Philanthropic Consortium (FMPC) will be
awarding grants to AAFP Constituent Chapters and Chapter Foundations in December 2010 as
it concludes its 2010 FMPC Grant Awards cycle. To be eligible, Chapters had to submit a grant
application which was then reviewed by the FMPC Steering Committee, a peer leadership group of
Chapter executives and family physicians.
It is through your support of the national Dues Check-Off campaign that the FMPC and the AAFP
Foundation are able to provide grants for deserving Chapter-level programs. Learn more about FMPC
and the important AAFP Foundation programs your dollars support at www.aafpfoundation.org.
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chairs for two of the classrooms,
blackboards and a teacher’s desk.
Children in Dushanbe and Yavan will
receive backpacks, school supplies,
hats, gloves, socks and underwear, and
handmade quilts made with the loving
hands of volunteers.
Boarding School for the Deaf and
Mute in Rudaki
This school is home to 190 students (ages
6 to 18) and provides a positive learning
environment for children with hearing
and speech impairments. Many of the
students are from orphanages throughout
Tajikistan, others from low-income families
and even some from high-income families
because of the level of specialized
instruction. The Children’s Project will
provide new sewing machines and an
oven for the home economics class,
enabling the children to learn a trade.
Please join us in thanking our
FMPC Steering Committee
members for their hard work
reviewing a record number
of Chapter and Chapter
Foundation grant applications
this summer: Becky Wimmer,
Wisconsin; Carletta Hauck,
South Dakota; David Hoelting,
MD, Nebraska; Jason Dees,
DO, Mississippi; Deborah
Clements, MD, Kansas;
Jamie Geng, Arizona;
Kate Mahler, Ohio; Kathy
McCarthy, Texas; Michelle
Jones, MD, North Carolina;
Rick Wherry, MD, Georgia;
and Sue Hinrichs, Oklahoma.
A special thanks to our
additional grant reviewer,
Marty Turner, MD, Kansas.